Mr. Stanley Baldwin has evidently set his face against any return to the party system at the present juncture. The disadvantages of the existing "coalition" are manifest, for the Liberal and, especially, the Labour, elements are exceedingly weak. Various circumstances, too, have given cause for Conservative dissatisfaction in that the National Government has met with strongest criticism on account of policies with which its Liberal and Labour Ministers have been chiefly associated. This reading of the situation is, however, only superficially justified, although Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's loss of gup over the House of Commons throws an hhal Association of Civil Engineers The name of the Murray Packing Compeny has been struck off the register" of British Companies in China.
The annual general meeting of the Ziangoe Rubber Ca, Ltd, will be held at 93 Canton Road, Shanghai, on Sune 2.
The annual general meeting of the Java Consolidated Rubber and Coffee Estates, Ltd, will take place on Sune 4. exceptionally heavy burden en. the Prime Minister. Mr, Baldwin is no mean judge of the trend of public opinion and his view that the Conservative vote at the General Election owed a good deal to the "Nation-label is probably well-founded. Moreover there is much to be said for the argument that the purely party labels are out of cate. When the Conservative label covers such palitlejane as Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mr. Winston "Churchill, Mr. Anthony Eden and Lord Hugh Cecil, to say nothing of Lord Lloyd and Lord Ceeit Chelwood in the Upper House, it is obvious that the dissolution of the National Front might prevent the dominant party with startling prob-Jems. Liberals include Sir Archibald Sinclair, Sir John Simon and. the Marquis of Lothian—the frst and last outside andthe Tatler within the National" Government ranks. Mr.
An extraordinary general_meoting of The Shanghai Dock & Engineering Ca, Lid, will be held on May 20th for' the purpose of considering a spe~ lal resolution, (On May 29 the seventh semi-annual drawing will take place of bond: due for redemption on June 15 of the City Government of Shanghai 7 per cent, Rehabilitation Loan of 1992, Stalls and booths are being offered for rent at the International Fair, which will be held in Yangtzepoo Road during July and August on a plot of ground facing the river.
The directors of the Alma Estates. Lid, have declared an interim dividend of thirty cents per share for the year ending September 30, 1936, payable to shareholders on the regis {er on June 10, 1936
Baldwin may have succeeded in restoring his control of his. immediate followers, but it is doubtful whether his ascendancy can be main-{alned without some reconstruction of a Cabinet which has had some rude shocks of late." In view of the Importance of the Issues to be decided the next few weeks, it seems trative that the National' front [should be preserved intact,
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